Megan Cump holds a B.A. from Macalester College and a M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Cump’s photographs are influenced by folktales, spirit photography, epic poems, myths, and narratives of metamorphoses.
Cump has exhibited her work in museums and galleries throughout the United States, including MASS MOCA, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Flanders Art Gallery, Islip Art Museum, Texas Women’s University, and Studio Z. She has taught at NYU, International Center of Photography, and Loyola Marymount University. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, LID Magazine, Photo District News, The Washington Post, and NY Arts Magazine.
Cump lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
